New MRIs offer sharper images, less claustrophobia

5:14 PM,
Apr. 26, 2013

Doug Stroud

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Multiple sclerosis patient Teresa Willis looks forward to spending less time in an MRI tube every six months.

Willis is among patients getting scans in a new higher-resolution MRI unit at Willis-Knighton Health System in Shreveport. The system cut about a half hour off her time in the tube and yielded more detailed images of the multiple sclerosis lesions in her nervous system, she said.

"My MRIs are three hours long," she said. "They have to scan my brain and spine. When I'm still for a long time, I get spasms in my legs, and that's something I can't control." ...